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Sunday, July 09, 2017

FACING THE END A book published January 1, 2014

I have been hearing from the Lord so I can now tell you what is happening
prophetically. The fact that it comes at at this point in history is not
accidental.

NONE of what I am about to reveal has anything to do at all with end
times. That is another issue. In the end notes of this book are some things
written where I explain what I know about the end times.

Don’t let certain end time positions veer you off the path of hearing what the
spirit of the Lord is saying to his people right now.

We must face the end of this time and the beginning of the next with faith not
fear. That is the will of God concerning you.

Read what HE is saying right now… to you.

Facing the end of what we have been living – our life

Prophetic History is never linear. It is circular. Where we are on the great
wheel of history helps us understand the past present and future. The Jewish
mind in the time of the ancient writings saw history as a cycle.

Our western linear thinking makes us think that things must be future based,
they are, but they are simply repeats of what has been. That's why scripture is
so helpful to understand the times and seasons. There are events that foretell
where things are on the great cycle. One thing is certain; Israel, spiritual
and natural (Chosen People) is a key in understanding the benchmarks prophetically.
It is a conundrum.

God's plan shoots like an arrow thru history, yet the cycle is how we grasp
eternal truths. It's a convergence of eternal truth and humanities propensity
to fall. Pagan peoples always embraced the cycle. Too many Christians have
ignored the cycle and only embraced the arrow which points to an end time, a
final conflict, a rapture, an event culminating in the coming of the Lord. It's
a difficult thing to reconcile the human mind's incapacity to grasp eternity...
yet to see the future history you must.

Here's what the Lord has shown prophetically in light of these things:

We are going to go descend further in our global culture. Life will become less
and less valuable to the culture at large. Killing people for
"reason" (sick, in the womb, mentally challenged, old, impaired,
insanity or racially different) will become acceptable.

The attack on the family will grow driven by a demon that embraces
homosexuality, destruction of all marriage, sexual insanity and the resultant children
of those "families" will become pagan change agents for the worse.
This will be promoted by the False Prophet (the cultural spirit embodied by
media and entertainment)

Wars not yet imagined will break out as things change. Some will become severe.
They will be racial, cultural (yes the cold civil war will become hot) and
international as countries attempt to stop what they see as danger by imposing
war against a source of the danger as they see it. It will happen as certain
countries begin to see the USA (or any other nation) as a danger along the
lines of how we saw Iraq after 2001. We went to war because we thought there
were WMD's in an unstable nation. That license to conduct a preemptive war is
now about to be exercised by other countries and if the USA becomes more
unstable than it is today, we will see those nations attack the USA
preemptively.

The imagined alliances in the world will dissolve under these attacks. Any
illusion that France, Germany or England will come to our aid under such an
attack is fantasy.

There are no global military to stand down a China or Russia who sees the USA
as a global danger by taking direct action against her.

As things deteriorate, there will be attempts again and again to take control
of other dangerous nations as a precursor. Mexico is one such by its continued
lawlessness and corruption (there are small signs there may be progress in this
area) stands vulnerable to invasion. IF a nation with a huge military were to
move against Mexico (see Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela) supported by a Russian
or Chinese Army and all it's might in a 3 pronged attack, do you imagine our
government in its weakened condition trying to defend such action? Mexico would
fall. I see this coming to a head.

This is not to be feared, it is the wars and rumors that are always with us and
will be again. They are threatenings. God may in his mercy judge those but the
real judgment is the heeding to the false prophet of the Beast that has brought
us to this point. The apex that was the USA a generation ago that knew God now
has become a nadir to a generation that has forgotten who God is. That cycle
has been part of humanity since Joseph in Egypt. It is again.

God hasn't forgotten us, he wants us to be aware of what our decline and degradation
has cost us. How the decisions we made over the last 50 years have brought us
to this point. Even mentioning the reasoning of God as he says to us, "Let
us reason together" is an offense to the false prophet.

We can only pray and act to have a real impact on a culture and society that no
longer knows God.

Joseph arise! God have Mercy

Facing the End with Optimism
The time of this trouble in our world will be global. The high will be brought
low. This will appear to be a good thing for those who are low and feel
like the high and mighty deserve this. The problem is the low will be
brought lower and many will not survive this time.

This is not the great tribulation, it is A great tribulation. It comes as
a curse on those nations who have substantially abandoned God and turned to
their own ways. Judgment was always declared on nations, but people in
nations suffered. "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and
He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats; Matthew 25:32

There is going be a complete economic reset in the nations, particularly
harsh among those nations who have tried to game the global economic system to
sustain unstainables mostly in western countries. This will mean the
collapse of currencies. This will mean warfare intranationally (civil
war) as services collapse. It will start slowly; Detroit was considered a
black swan. That destiny waits for many cities, states and nations.
Prophets have declared in the past that Detroit would be a pattern for the
nation. Many spiritual leaders didn't think it would be like this.
Other cities will collapse, then states and eventually the whole nation.

Once one large western nation collapses, other economic dominoes will follow;
one at a time.

That will create the chaos that neutralizes the supposed power of a one world
currency.

People will form these smaller subcultures. Skill will once again become
the currency of exchange. I will do for you as you do for me.
Exchange will be conducted with hand written IOUs in small community
groups. Those who have nothing to offer (skill), those who cannot
contribute in these small sustaining subcultures will die. Man's fallen
nature will not support one another in a godless society. Give to
get. Dog eat dog. Raw survival.

Add to this the constancy of violent global weather conditions, not unusual,
just constant. This will result in unmet needs in nations. When
earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, epidemics, volcanic eruptions,
blizzards, tornadoes, floods, landslides and a hundred other killer events
occur after a global economic collapse (I promise one is coming) there will be
no response. There will be no one able to respond. People will
perish. There will be much death and destruction from this. There
is hope however and it bears the signs of rebirth. Read on. All this
seems like doom and gloom and the end of all things. It's not, its birth
pangs as the Kingdom of God is advancing.

Those who look to these events as the end of the world aren't looking at the
optimistic future I see. BUT, you can say, "Doesn’t seem very optimistic
to me". NO, if we depend on our leadership, our government or the
corrupt world economic system, we have good reasons for pessimism.

There is no cause for optimism as long as two altars are erected in every home,
city, church, state and nation. One allegedly to the God of our Fathers
and one to the Beast supported by the false prophet. We have that situation
now. There are two altars in many churches, Baal and God. One is an altar
of prosperity and fertility (Baal) and one is to Father God (giving lip service
to trusting HIM for provision and protection). It's time for one of them
to be torn down.

The result of Baal worship is that those who support it become dog food.
Jezebel and Ahab were a type of this religious system of government with it
false prophets who supported this evil government and economic bondage system
(as is being formed right now in the USA). The worship of Baal was for
the purpose of assuring prosperity. That's the antichrist system we have in
effect today. You don't have to look for the antichrist spirit; he
is in the news every day. You don't have to wonder what religious governmental
combine is supported by this. It's global.

It's a strange combination; the false prophet is encouraging tolerance by
imposing intolerance. Islam is one such, but as John the Apostle said,
the antichrist is already in the world and there are many antichrists.

When you see a false worship based on peace and prosperity wrapped up in
government and supported by media with a degraded culture (as seen on TV and
it's not Sham Wow) you see the beginning of the day when it must all be thrown
down by the Eunuchs and consumed by the dogs. THROW HER DOWN.

There will be places of refuge, but they won't be predictable. They will
happen as Holy Spirit manifests Christ among us. Many places will remain
in deep darkness, but the Holy Spirit will brood above the deep darkness and
bring light at His Word.

This will result in the greatest awakening the world has ever known, even in
Israel spiritual birth will come as a sign and a wonder. Jesus will be
manifested even greater than we have ever known. Nearly all churches, as
we have known them will dissolve.

Our focus on some supposed
future event will be discarded for the realization that here and now is the
fullness of the Presence of Christ. In the natural tragedies of flood and
famine there will be supernatural events that point to the true and living God.
Manna, Healing, Wholeness, Provision. It is that happening at the hands
of Holy Ghost empowered witnesses (not witnessing, being witnesses)
demonstrating deliverance to the nations.

This will require sacrificing all the priests of Baal in our lives. No
more can we be of two opinions. Now only one.

Our God is one.... and HE IS ABLE

Facing the end WITHOUT FEAR

In the beginning of this I said there are deep long cycles. Even with a
destiny for all of us we are operating in patterns easily recognized from the
Word of God. One thing is certain; God will take judgment on the evil of
rebellion - Its witchcraft to him. He will strip away everything that
violates the first and second commandments (Thou shalt have no other gods &
No graven images or likenesses) until the only thing left is HIM. He has
always done this. He allows rebellion to run its course until he pulls
back hard. Just reading the book of Ezekiel chapter 7 and you can see clearly the
pattern. Gold thrown in the street. Money fails. Rebellion results
in desolation. It happened before and in rebellion will happen again and
again:

Ezekiel 7:10b-22

The result of all this will be
a wholesale return to the God of our Fathers. False religions will fade
away. There will no hope except a return to the Lord. "Come
let us return to the Lord" will be the cry.

There will be no escape. You won't be able to buy your way out of this.
The only thing that can save you are your relationships horizontally and
vertically.

God will be in our midst. Jesus will manifest. The Holy Spirit
filled saint will walk in authority. In the middle of all this will be a
recognition of the hopeless worthless materialist things that costs many
everything, even their lives.

How can a Christian face pain and difficulty?

The key to overcoming is grasping an ancient yet now forgotten way of death and
dying and the solid trust we can have in an everlasting Father. Our
modern culture no longer faces death with the power of the Holy Ghost and life
lived for God. We see our life and one thing and our purpose in God as
another. Yet, I can make this promise to you; You will not see death
until your eternal purpose in the Father is complete. If you have lost a
child or a loved one prematurely, you might question that. But it's
true.. You are immortal in the flesh until....destiny is met in you.

The fear of death has created a culture that grasps at life above its
value. How did the martyrs of old face death? Bravely, welcoming,
fearlessly, with joy and hope. How did the ancients as they lay dying pronounce
blessing to others and then were laid up with their fathers?

How do those who fight in wars are often killed for the cause they fight for
and die with courage? How did the Apostle Paul or Peter face the
executioners? They knew death was coming but with little fear. They
had a revelation of what happens at death.
Facing the End .. Overcoming the FEAR of DEATH

Satan has caused many saints of God to allow the sting of death to return. He
has deceived many into clinging to our mortal meat shells without Godly reason.
Yes, we want to live, we can't do much for the Kingdom when we are dead, but we
will all die. There is no escape. It is, was and always will be appointed unto
man ONCE to die. There is a second death. It is the death of the lost. To the
pagan, those lost for eternity, death does and should hold fear. I will not
address those things that they fear. There is a way to enter into eternal life.
It's visible at nearly every football game. John 3:16. I am more concerned with
Christians who fear death needlessly. We need to know with confidence how that
last breath happens and what it means.

What happens when we die? There is great confusion; it's the second time we go
thru such radical change. Change is confusing. All change is perceived as loss.
Birth was confusing. Darkness to light, Warmth to something new and colder. We
cried out.

We were confused in this transition. Uncertain. Death has the same effect. As
we lie on our deathbed, sometimes we face this with fear, sometimes amazement,
a metaphysical roller coaster ride.
I understand that as Steve Jobs lay dying, just before he took his last breath,
his eyes opened and he said, WOW!. I don't know what that means but I am sure
WOW fits. Some withdraw further and further. Sleeping more and more.
Recognizing the end and accepting it without struggle. Some struggle right up
till the end in fear. It's understandable.

Yet there is a way to understand death and overcome the fear, the sting, until
we can say, “Oh Death where is your sting?”

Is there pain in death? Yes, momentarily. Particularly in a gruesome death. A
gunshot, stabbing, bad car accident, execution, torture, a painful death by
drowning, suffocation, heart attack or hanging.

Most people imagine they are going to die lying on a bed with friends and
family surrounding them. That is not always the case. What of these more
difficult unexpected situations of dying in pain. To deny pain is to deny the
reality of death. There is good news, pain is the last ditch effort our flesh
fights with eternity to keep us here in time.

Those who have gone thru this and come back say the pain was momentary, brief,
intense and then erased from all memory. Like having a really bad tooth pulled.
Pain for a moment and then no more pain. Mortality is not sloughed off easily.
This flesh doesn't want to become an empty shell to be buried, burned or
abandoned. It wants to hold on as long as it can. But like a teenager who
becomes such a pain in the neck that a parent is glad when they leave, so too
our flesh causes us more and more discomfort as we age until staying in it is
no longer acceptable. It's very much the same syndrome if we must learn to
accept it as normal.

Not that there isn't regret and pain in separation from those we love. That's
part of it too. Yet to the Christian, it is those loved ones left behind that
suffer. Once death happens for the Believer all pain is gone, all memories that
would cause grief dissipates. The sentiment is “I'll see you soon”. An eternal
perspective offers that.

If we could grasp the temporary nature in dying we might not enter into it as
full of trepidation as we do. Much of the heroics we commit ourselves to in the
false hope that we might live forever in our bodies (or longer anyway) are vain
attempts to postpone that which will take us all. It's not a sin. Doing battle
with disease is part of life.

Jesus (the great physician)
healed the sick and raised the dead. Yet all died. It's that eventual reality
that must be recognized as we step from time into eternity.

We come into a new reality as a believer who dies in Christ. No pain. No grief.
No fear. In the next chapter I will tell you what happens right AFTER
you die. And what it's really like on the other side of the veil that stands
between time and eternity. Most people don't understand this. If we can.. it
will change us forever and we will live in victory --fearless and purposed.

It IS Fathers intent for you to know this as he has downloaded this to many
prophets who are speaking the same thing right now. This is why I am so
confident in sharing this at this time.

Facing the End - Entering Eternity Fearlessly

Imagine that you are one and then the other of the two thieves on the cross on
either side of Jesus as they died. One mocked him. Bravado.
Anger. Pain. The other appealed to Jesus. “Remember me” he
said. Jesus assures him thru his anguish, pain of scourging and beatings,
pain of torture on a cross designed to make the dying as long and painful as
possible. All three were suffering.

The mocking thief faced his final moments in terror. Not knowing what
would be next. His last breath was a desperate attempt to forestall the
moment of life's termination.

On the other side was the thief that heard the word of the Lord; “TODAY YOU
WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE”. His last breath was welcomed. He knew
that Jesus, the Creator of the universe opened heaven's welcome center for
him. Fear was gone. He may have been in pain.. But he entered into
eternity with hope. That is Gods best for his children. Fear of the
sting of death is gone...as we will lay dying He says once more ... “TODAY YOU
WILL BE WITH ME”.

So what happens to us right after we die? It's the moment after.
Time has now ceased. We enter eternity. All pain is gone. Our
carcass is empty.

Body and soul are no longer one. What do we see or experience? What
is that moment like?

What we will experience in Heaven
There are scriptural evidences and testimonies of a some who have witnessed
these things to help us grasp what happens. We can construct what it will
be like using clues with Biblical support.

The song “I can only imagine”, as wonderful as it is, comes short of the mark.
We can imagine and if we can grasp the vision, fear will dissolve.

The moment that thief Jesus promised died and all people who die in Christ, the
moment you die here's what happens:

There is a shock into well being. We suddenly feel indescribable
peace. Beyond all understanding. It's overwhelms us. We can
hardly take it in. There is the unimaginable beauty. It is a
manifestation of the fullness of Jesus beauty. Every color comes so alive that
we can taste it. In fact we will taste colors. Music is
everywhere. All at once.

This is eternity where everything is now. So our experience in non
linear. It's all now. Hard for those of us trapped in time to
grasp, but to get a small glimpse of what that might be like, think back to a
wonderful childhood memory. A good one. Think of it. All the
color, music, joy, fun, and love you felt. Now let that emotion come over
you. You see it not in linear fashion but as one good memory, all at
once. The parts you really enjoyed come back again and again.
That's a bad imitation of what eternity is like. All at once, but able to
be parceled out.

People ask what kind of music will I hear? It will be your fullness of
joy to experience... whatever fits your moment will be heard. For some hymns,
for some chants, for some choruses, for some classical, for some a gospel song,
or even a joyful rap. It's your eternity and Father will speak to you in
the context you understand. You will grasp that it's all one. Yet
differentiable, yet we will not know of the differences others have.

You will have unspeakable joy. No remembrances from earth that have
contain any regret or pain... the pain you had in life will fit into your
understanding and there will be no questions. The Idea that you are going
to ask questions of Jesus when you get there will be needless. You will
have full understanding of all. You will know who you really are.
There will be no more self doubt.

How you fit into the whole while on earth will make perfect sense in a
supernatural way. That is why there is no recognized hierarchy in
heaven. One saint is as another. Fullness and fitly joined
together.

This sudden recognition of your important place in the universe will take your
breath away.

Your capacity for experience will multiply a thousand times or more. You
will experience heaven as if you had 5000 senses instead of 5. Every
color, every sound, every taste, everything you hear, everything you feel, and
the fragrance... it will be amazing. You will understand what a vapid
colorless place life on earth was. You won't regret it...but wish
everyone could experience what you are experience.

You will live without confusion. No questions. Your desire will be to worship.
It will all be so clear. Bowing in worship, raising hands.
Singing. The Sea of Glass is a desire hidden in the hearts of men. We
want to be there. Whatever we do will make all the sense...in heaven. It will
be automatic. You will want to enter into who HE is so completely as to
be lost in Him. You were created for this. The beauty of Jesus will
be revealed again and again. It will be all one but eternal. It will
never be boring. Love will be overwhelming.

You will have a form. A spirit form. Yet you will look to others as
you were remembered best. Known as you were known. Recognized... yet it
is your spirit that they see.. the rest is construct. In fact you have
only a spirit.

It's hard to explain, but you won't have arms, legs or a head as you know
yourself, but to those who see you, you will look as you did to them.

I know that's hard to understand but think of a child who dies young. Her
daddy is 25 years old. She will see him thus. His brother who dies
at 50 will remember him as about his age and his wife who follows him in death
will see that man thru the eyes of love. His mother who bore him and died in
childbirth will see him as a young boy. They will all know him, but all
in context and construct. Its how people who die see grandparents and
such waiting for them... as they knew them.

It will not seem an unfamiliar place to be explored. You will already
know all about it. It will seem normal, someplace you already knew.
In a strange way, heaven was always in your heart.
You have had glimpses of it. This is why the idea of reincarnation keeps
coming up in false religions. There is a sense of going back, so people
try to explain the origin of all life (JESUS saying let there be) as a
reincarnation. It's not. But it is a type of returning... Remember,
once there, all here is now.

To grasp this scripturally, you are already seated in heavenly places with
Christ Jesus...yet you are here. In that way you return to heaven.

It is impossible to describe so those who have had a glimpse of Heaven are lost
for words.

One thing is certain, once you have been there and come back the fear of death,
even the fear of the pain of death is gone.

People don't GO to heaven. They enter heaven. Heaven is infinite in
proximity. Right here. Right there. Just there. It is easier
to think of it a long long away somehow out there, but it's here. Not on earth,
well kind of. More on that in the last post.

When people die they step from the cloak of time into the uncloaking of
eternity. We are locked in a box called time and enter into an unlimited
vista called NOW.. Eternity.

Facing the End.. Left Behind
The hardest part for those still here after someone steps from time into
eternity is the sense of being left behind (there is still pain in loss).
Once our loved ones step from time into eternity they are unaware of us.
They don't forget us, they know who we are, but they are not aware of us once
they are in eternity. They are not part of any cloud of witnesses.
They are oblivious to us after the point of death. Think about what it
would be like for them to be aware of our actions, reactions and
rebellions. They do not become angels.

Mary the Mother of Jesus, she is there, but she is not an angel. I don't
want to upset my Catholic friends but the apparitions of Mary are supernatural
communications but not Mary.

People saw her because it was a form of communication. Sometimes perhaps
even demonic. Measurement of that must be made in the light of Scripture.
An Angel taking a form acceptable to us can be a way Father uses His messengers
to communicate something he can't get done another way. Look at all the
times angel messengers were used and documented to communicate something. It's
still happening. There are angels of light, but not all good.

Those people now in heaven don't see or sense us. They are in
glory. BUT we can sense them. They can't come to us, there are no
ghosts. We will only go to them. They can't come to us. David
proclaimed that when his infant son died. It's a truth we must grasp.

When someone who has lost a loved one says, "It feels like they are still
here or I can feel or sense their presence" it's true. They are just
there.. just on the other side of the veil. A very thin veil.

You can feel it. You sense them. Yet this is not so for them. They wait
for you. They remember you in the completed tapestry that was their life
in time. But you are now frozen in their memory. After they die,
they don’t see you again. You can talk, pray and cry out to them, but
they are deaf to your cries. Praying to saints is fruitless. YET...
of your loved ones gone - you can sense the love they had for you and bask in
it... as they wait for you to come. The veil between you and them is very
thin and sometimes is breached for a moment.. you to them but not them to
you. They are in Glory and you are still here in the battle. They
are right there... just there, you can almost reach out and touch them on the
other side of the veil. Think of what the transfiguration was like for Moses?
Did he see to our side?

Jesus and all the angels have no problem moving from time into eternity and
back again. There is no confusion for them. That's why Jesus
ascending into heaven and returning seemed to break thru a veil, a cloud.
I wonder how high it appeared Jesus was when he seemed to disappear?
Fifty feet, a hundred, a thousand? It seemed as if he entered a cloud and
then was gone.

In the same way he came back again.... in a cloud. Not that it is a
cloud.. it is the separation between time and eternity.

Cloud is the only way someone seeing it can describe it. It's a portal
that opens and as angels step thru it looks like stepping into or out of a
cloud.

Jesus appears often on earth. Has to many. He sees us. He is God.
Your uncle Art is not like that. He is now like Jesus in bodily form in
heaven, but not God.

Angels are assigned messengers
and with messages come from and return to heaven. Your uncle Art will
never be an angel. Your uncle Art will be one who came into heaven a
little higher than the angels yet never assigned to return to earth.
That's for other created beings.

This is also how supernatural provision comes. Remember the storeroom of
heaven is just over there. Just the other side of the veil. Very
close in proximity. So when we look to heaven's provision we are able to
receive as the veil is breached and those things stored up for us are delivered
into our hands. Sometimes it's manna. Sometimes it's rain when you
need it. Sometimes it's deliverance. Sometimes its
protection. Sometimes it's money in a fish. Those things happen as
heaven touches earth for a moment in answer to prayer.

One thing that becomes clear in heaven when the revelation comes of HIS
greatness and majesty. The earth, the sun, the moon, the solar system, the
galaxies, all the galaxies, all of creation will suddenly fade into proper
perspective in our sight of the Creator. Will earth exist...? Yes
but in proper perspective.

All of creation will roll up like a scroll in proper relationship to her
creator. You won't be in awe of them any more, you will only have awe for
the Maker. There will be very little to cause you to want to be other
than in HIS presence... except that HE is everywhere. If you decide you
want to visit Jupiter or Mars (like the old song says) you can think it and be
there. You won't need air or a spaceship. You won't --- not moving,
you'll just be.

All the things you read and memorized from scripture will make sense.
There will be things you were taught or believed here on earth that will seem
like nonsense. But that was then. In eternity the silly things you
thought will fall away as the TRUTH takes center stage.. I AM the TRUTH HE
said.

Not everyone will make it to heaven. Will you know if your loved ones are
missing and grieve? Probably not. There are no tears in
heaven. No grief. No pain.

So from the moment you die till your loved ones appear at heaven's portal you
will be unknowing. It's not a sanitized experience; it's one that provides
only for your fit into the whole.

These things are hard to explain. The centrality of Jesus is what makes
it all hold together (according to Scripture).
He will so overwhelm you with His glory you will not notice so many things that
distract on earth. You can live like this. You can grasp your eternal nature
now. You already have eternal life.

Epilogue

There is much more to say, but like Paul the Apostle said,

“It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come
to visions and revelations of the Lord: I know a man in Christ who fourteen
years whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not
know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a
man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— how he was
caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful
for a man to utter. Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast,
except in my infirmities. For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a
fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me
above what he sees me to be or hears from me” (2 Corinthians 12:1–6)

I won't tell you how I know all these things, you must measure them all by
scripture. They will prove to be true as they are.

Foundational Notes

To understand the perspective this writer’s root, I offer some of the theology
that informs me in this prophetic statement.

About the End we Will Face

Almost all of what has been written and preached the last hundred or so years
about the end times is wrong. I could give you all kinds of
Biblical evidence and historical back up, but for those who are questioning it
all, here are a few truths:

There is no rapture. Never was. The "Join Him in the
AIR” is true.. but not as a rapture.

Jesus is here. Always has been as he promised. He manifests
but only for a brief time. He is as good as His word.... NEVER leaving or
forsaking. He's here. We do not know how to recognize him. We are like the men
on the road to Emmaus or Mary Magdalene in the Garden.
The world is not about to end, it is however going to go
thru times of great trouble, but that has been going on in history since time
began. These tribulations are part of a great cycle. There is no Great
Tribulation yet there will be tribulations.

False religions connected with political power will be shown
up to be the beast and the beast will manifest himself as the persecutor of the
faithful.

Jesus is hated by the devil and when he inspires demonized people to take
control of a religious system it becomes demonic government. The current beast
is Islam. No longer a religion it has now become a tool of satan's continuing
failing attempt to destroy the Kingdom of God.

Of course in the face of great persecution comes great revival. When the devil
comes in, LIKE A FLOOD God raises up a standard against him.

Don't fear persecution, don't embrace it either. Recognize it as part of the
cycle. When Islam is destroyed and discredited, there will be another. The
devil has no new strategies, that's why the writers of the Bible could talk
with such certitude about such things. It did happen, people lost their heads
for their profession of faith, they are losing them today around the world and
will even more in the future.

Victorious Eschatology

There are “Biblical” ideas that have been presented that are not accurate. It's
not just the eschatology, it is an understanding of the victory over sin and
death that was fought and WON at the cross witnessed by an empty tomb over 2000
years ago.

Someday the world will indeed cease to exist as we knew it physically...yet it
will never end. When Jesus is revealed (either upon our stepping from time into
eternity or when the earth dissolves... as must happen eventually) we will see
HIM as HE really is. The scroll will be rolled back and then the SON will shine
brighter than the SUN. That is the revelation of HIM that we will all see together.
It's not going to happen soon. Stop looking for it. There is no great showdown
ending with the world ceasing to exist.

The Kingdom of God is not going to stop advancing until the end of the WORLD...
so enjoy the journey without fear.

How about the mark of the beast, the one world money system, the "no man
can buy or sell except"? All happened and will happen again and then will
not. In fact eventually all attempts to create a single currency fails (see
Bitcoin). At one time all of the Roman Empire used a single currency. How about
now?

Attempts and failures over the centuries to control commerce by creating fiat
currency has always ended in defeat. Its not to say the devil doesn't try it
again and again, it's just destined to fail. In fact soon God's judgment will
once again manifest to crush this vain attempt. This worldwide system will
collapse.

What about the bowls of wrath, the vials, the hailstones, the four corners, the
winds, the beast from the sea, the "hide me", the terrors of
Revelation? They all happened right on schedule in AD 72. The religious system
of the Beast Judaism and Government were crushed and destroyed. Since all
things in the earth have been deep long term cycles and birth pangs, they
happen again and again and again as the Kingdom advances.

Those who doubt God's capacity to bring judgment on evil don't own a newspaper,
radio, TV or have access to Internet news. YET all these things are past,
present and future... as the Kingdom increases. Don't read the news with an eye
towards the end, or Jesus coming thru the clouds; He did, in the sight of the
High Priest.

And he will again, in a show of his GLORY as this beast system is once again
put to dust, to shame.

Think of all the beast systems that are now properly filed in the dustbin of
history. Baal, Greek, Roman and Norse god Worship (remember Zeus and Odin?),
Egyptian gods of government now only exist in hieroglyphics, who knows what
Stonehenge was all about, or the Mayan and Aztec gods who were sacrificed to of
human flesh and in more modern times Japan, China, Nazi and certain African
nations who considered their leaders gods or demi gods. Now all gone. Only
Jesus remains. And at some point when Islam is exposed it too will die the
death all false religion dies. As will Hindu and all other. Only Christ, the
true and living God will survive the millennia. All others are judged and pass
away.
Jesus spoke of certain times in Matthew 24. They all came to pass exactly as he
predicted in 72AD. Yet we must also be aware of the cycles.... deep and long.
Catastrophe has come and will come again so the warnings Jesus makes are still
efficacious to heed. We ignore them as history at our own risk. They are
History, but they ring true as the great cycles of humanity turn. We lurch from
obscurity, to abundance, to bondage and then into catastrophe. It has been ever
thus and the Books of Kings and Chronicles are there as a shadow of what we
expect.

The lawless acts warned about to Timothy by Paul are true. Men do wax worse and
worse....then the cycle turns, revival comes, repentance and GLORY shines. It
will happen again. We are not far from a much greater revival (accompanied by
greater persecution) than you can imagine.

I write all this not to convince you to change your thinking. That is a journey
you must take for yourself. There are many great books and teachings to help
you find the way. If however you persist in believing that somehow you will be
spared by some escape in the future (rapture), you will become discouraged. You
won't escape but you can be hidden, you can be in Goshen, you can live in the
provision and protection of the Lord, but you will not escape unscathed. If you
look at the long cycles of history, you will see it.

What About Israel?

There is something about the people Israel. There is much we don't grasp; who
they are and what they represent to God in his illogical asymmetrical covenant
commitment to a rebellious people. Those of us who are grafted in later (that
would be you and me) are just as rebellious. If I were God I would have chosen
a much more worthy race of folks, Germans perhaps. (that's a joke) In any case,
ignoring what is happening with the covenanted people even in rebellion is
intentional spiritual blindness.

The very fact that they now speak the language Moses spoke and was spoken to at
the burning bush and occupy the same land is not without prophetic meaning.
This is a sign to those of us who are grafted in to have confidence in our God.
It is not about the real estate, they may someday lose the land, but the
covenant will still be in place. He is not an Indian-giver God. God's great
advancing Kingdom is becoming greater. Have hope in God.His covenant is eternal to YOU!Satan Encourages Rapture Preaching

Many preachers are pointing to the times and seasons as harbingers of the end
times. Others are warning of the collapse of our society. Some are
advising people to store up in barns money, gold, sliver and goods for a season
of great difficulty. Some advise becoming well armed to defend one's self
against the imminent time of the end. I don’t argue with being prepared. I do
argue the reasons behind these things.

The dispensationalist are looking for an easy out. The rapture that will
save all true believers. Those nasty pagans will just have to endure the
tribulation and the oppression of the antichrist. If ONLY they had
listened to "us" (much wiser and more alert then they) they would
have been vacuumed up to heaven and not left here to writhe in pain from the
sting of scorpions or some such. (YES - I saw all the Holy Horror movies
back in the 80s).

Now we have a new one coming out. Starring Nicolas Cage as the hero,
Hollywood is promoting the rapture. Isn't it interesting that godless Hollywood
is now desperately preaching the exact same deception that has paralyzed the
body of Christ.

Only truth sets people free. But truth can only be conveyed by a living
witness. People can't be saved unless there are examples of the fruit of
being saved in crisis situations.

Witness is a NOUN not a VERB!

You don't witness by sharing so called spiritual laws, you witness by being
Jesus in flesh here and now in plain view of the world. IF however you
are gone, raptured, dead, inert hiding out, you aren't much value to the
kingdom of God on earth.

It is this illusion, this great deception (the grand delusion) that must be
confronted by the True Prophets of God. Father needs every saint on the
planet to be there to help the lost and desperate souls find truth,
Jesus. It's not going to happen in churches. When the
collapse comes (one IS coming) churches will cease to function. Informal
small fellowships of those who need peace will be all there is.

These organic cellular pods
will become the only body of Christ manifesting on the earth and it will be more
powerful by a magnitude of ten then all the Churches and so called Christian TV
on the planet today have been able to effect in their efforts. There will
be larger gatherings. These small pods will assemble from time to time,
sometimes they might even USE an empty church.

I encourage Christians to prepare themselves for this day.

Become spiritually grounded. Allow the Five Fold to equip YOU for the
work of the Ministry. Learn to build community. Connect with your
neighbors. When it all goes dark they will be all you have and you must
be light for them. Forget about escape. It's a myth. Begin
now to prepare for the end with courage and looking for a new beginning.

IF you die, you die in Christ, but your true destiny is to be a voice and a
witness that draws people into the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God expands on
earth as it is made up of living souls redeemed from sin and
destruction. You can't do that if you are dead. Or raptured.

Prepare to face the end and usher in the new beginning of what will in fact be
the greatest expansion of the Kingdom of God ever seen on planet earth.

What about the Resurrection of the Dead in Christ?

I am often asked what about the resurrection in light of this theology. We need
to read our Bibles clearly. I will assume you know the scriptures if you are
reading this. What was

Jesus like after He rose from the dead? That's what we will be like when we
rise from the dead. He was the first fruit.

Here's a way to help think this through. What if the Romans had decided to burn
Jesus body to be certain he would not rise from the dead? It would have saved
placing Guards at the tomb. WOULD THE POWER OF GOD been enough to raise him
from the ashes? OR would Father have said, “RATS, It was a good plan but I
needed a body to raise someone from the dead. Guess I'll try again later”.

I'm not being sacrilege here; the question about bodily Resurrection gets all
messed up in flawed theology.

JESUS was raised from the dead
into a Glorified Body. Just like you will have when you die; Raised bodily but
Glorified.

Yes, we will all be raised from the dead, in the air into an eternal heaven...
God doesn't need any earthly (corruptible) molecules to resurrect you bodily to
life everlasting with a glorified body just like Jesus has.

The Resurrection is not to your former corrupt state. You rise again to become
JUST LIKE JESUS in a Glorified Body. There is nothing good about your old body.
Resurrection happens, but it won't be like you thought or were taught... unless
you know the scripture. Then you think right.

Bad Eschatology is like the DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS forever.. and then Christmas
never comes

I have been reading about the end of the world for 40 years. In 1970 Hal
Lindsey published the book "The Late Great Planet Earth". I
read it a couple years after it came out. It scared the hell out of me...
I mean that literally. Pretty certain that things were going to collapse,
come to an end, tribulation, wars, antichrist, beast, mark, rapture.... really
a horror show.

It affected me. It's not why I got saved, I got saved because I was lost
in this life.

If you were alive then and remember the book ..it affected you too. But
it's likely NOT why you came to Jesus. In fact most of the people scared
by end times things make short term shallow converts and then later solid
atheists.

A spirit was released at that time that has had a profound negative impact on
the nation, the church, the Christian community in our nation and has
manifested in the rise of skeptic rooted atheism we see today.

Much of the foolish parsing of news events twisted into fitting some scriptural
paradigm of prophetic meaning based on Ezekiel, Daniel, Matthew 24 and
Revelation has been going on in churches and books for almost 200 years.

Even the popular website,
Rapture Ready has become a parody of itself by cataloging the failed attempts
to predict the end of the world, the rapture, the tribulation etc ad infinitum.

I have read accounts of how events in Israel, Russia, Europe and the Conflicts
in Arab countries are a clear indicator of the end of the world and the soon
coming of the Lord. The one that jolted me into reality regarding these
things was one such account .... published in 1895. It took world
events around that time and structured them into a tapestry that predicted the
soon coming of the Lord with great confidence.

You can find those books in Christian bookstores... written about events going
on right now. I have some on my bookshelves. The left behind series is
one. Websites are up and running, and very well intentioned that take current
events and use them to warn people to expect the skies to part.

If anyone should question these things they are buffeted with all kinds of
Bible Bullets that define questioning people as scoffers who doubt IF such
things sense. If your expectation of Jesus revelation to you is dependent
on what you see on TV or hear on the radio surrounding events in the middle
east, you are being duped. It's very infectious, but like a bad virus, it only
weakens the body.

What is worse, you are being poisoned against living your life in the Presence
of Jesus. You can't see Him active and present in your life because in
your theology He is coming soon.

Unbelievers around you think you are crazy. They read these books too and
the devil has used them as an inoculation against the TRUTH of the Gospel. It's
actually a clever scheme. End times fantasy has crippled evangelism in
our world. When people who should be invited into a Life WITH
Christ here and now, they are told of some time in the future when if they
measure up somehow (don't miss the rapture) they will be able to spend real
quality time with him. Kind of a spiritual Harry Chapin song, "Cat's
in the Cradle". We'll have a good time then...

I write this on the day after Christmas, a time when we are aware of how
permanent anticipation can be a trap. How hoping for a future event kills
the joy in the moment. How on this day there is a let down. That's
what finding all this out is for many, a jolt into reality they didn't know
they wanted until they got there.

They loved that day before
Christmas feeling that futuristic prophetic interpretation gives them.
There is also a one-upmanship about it all. Kind of like the contest
level yard displays I see in some neighborhoods in the season. We
decorate out theology with more and brighter outlandish claims of this or that
fresh revelation of the coming of the Lord. I will offend some, but the
Harbinger was one such. So were the blood moon things.

Jesus on the sermon on the mount taught His followers to understand that living
here and now WITH HIM was the chief goal of man. Not some future event.

Somehow that got all mixed up into causing people to think we should wait for
that future event. It only results in disappointment. Like the day
after Christmas.

The divisiveness that has been manifested by all this vain speculation (at
least that's what the Bible calls such foolishness) divides the body of Christ
into pre trib, mid trib, post trib, no trib, millennial, amillennial and a
dozen other such iterations. Anything that focuses on some future event
is excuse enough for not living what we should here and now in the presence of
the True and Living God, the Creator of all the Universe, King of Kings, True
God here and now among us.

Darby and Scolfield were wrong... and they know it now. They made heaven,
but really know the truth now. If they could come back (they can't) they
would say STOP... we were wrong.

Godless sects have risen up from this kind of teaching.

Jehovah's Witness is one such. They have been predicting the end in
Watchtower as a publication. They are wrong every single time. They are the
champs at setting dates.

They came out of William Miller's preaching about the end times in the middle
of the 1800s. Now they have devolved into a cult of lost people who no
longer believe Jesus is God. That's where this error filled teaching will
lead you... to apostasy.

I enjoy having a Jehovah's Witness team come to my door. I seldom argue the
dispute about “is Jesus God”... I start to talk to them about the Presence of
the God here and now, His love for them, His action right here and now in their
lives, how they can SEE HIM, experience Him, Know Him.

Then I gently tell them of the
Power of the Holy Spirit and the Presence of Jesus (There's the rebuttal to
True God for them) and how wonderful it can be to know Him in that way.

More than once a Jehovah's Witness novice has left my house in tears shaken by
the reality of the Presence of Jesus. They came to witness (a verb) I was
simply a Witness (a noun). That is the difference and we can't be that if
we are living in fear or anticipation of an event that will never come to pass.

The problem with all flawed and error filled theology, Jehovah's witnesses and
the whole end times ministry machine (Much of it money driven) is they will
proclaim "It's not Biblical" to NOT believe as we do.

So they fire the Bible bullets and hope you are hit. What they think are
Bible Bullets are in fact fiery darts. Satan in charge.

When I see Jack Van Impe on TV it saddens me. He has been doing his tap dance
for decades and is more confused today than he was in the 80s. He knows
the Bible cold and yet can stretch and twist world events to fit scripture and
one way or another week after week after week. He's always wrong.

The final thing that impacted me and turned the light on was the historicity of
the Bible. I tried to prove that many of the things mentioned in Ezekiel,
Matthew and Revelation haven't happened yet so they must be unfulfilled
prophecy. I failed in my quest. They all proved to have been rooted
in historical events. I will ask the reader to do their own work. It will
tear you up for a while as you discover how far afield you have gone under the
influence of false teaching. The Bible is true. It all happened.
There are however occasions when history does repeat... knowing which is which
is all the trick... just don't be deceived by the devil's scheme.

IF the light comes on for you.... freedom will be the result. Joy, Peace,
Patience. In fact, I don't believe it is possible to live in the fullness
of the fruit of the Spirit without proper understanding in these areas. I
hope you find it.. I'll see you in Heaven in any case. This isn't about
eternity, it's about Kingdom living here and now.

The Truth of Jesus Return

Jesus is here, among us, already present. He will be revealed to us on our last
day, but until then we can see Him as He is. He said He will never leave or
forsake us. But we are blinded by religion and bad teaching from seeing Him
Present in our Lives... all the time... every day. We are like the men on the
road to Emmaus.

This is not over-spiritualization. This is a declaration of the Presence of the
True and Living God: Here... Now.

So how IS He present among us today?

Here are a few ways:

In Community - where ever Two or Three are gathered together
in MY NAME there I am

In Worship - “Inhabits the praise of His people (Psalms 22:
3)

In Judgment - When you read the Lord shall Judge, it's the
same word as the Lord shall come. When you see Him bring things to pass... it's
parosia

In Covenant and Covenant Renewal - When we see him promise,
we promise him and promise to one another (why Christian Weddings are so
Powerful)

In Prophecy 1 Corinthians 14:22-25 As they listen, their
secret thoughts will be exposed, and they will fall to their knees and worship
God, declaring, “God is truly here among you.”

In The Gifts of the Spirit - Jesus manifests Himself when we
flow with Him, by Him and Him thru us. This is a Grace and a Great
Mystery...but it's JESUS manifest.

In Proclamation of the Word (not Preaching) Jesus is the
WORD become Flesh and dwelling among us. When his word is proclaimed it is
Jesus present.

In The reality of the Eucharistic experience - we do not
understand the fullness of the TRUE PRESENCE of Jesus in the sacrament. Most
people miss Him.

In Holy Ghost Prayer: It was the prayer of Jesus on the
night of his betrayal that we become one in Him and in the Father as noted in
John 17:22, “And the glory which you given to them that they may be one in us,
that the world may know that you have sent Me. True spiritual life and
fulfillment comes by becoming one in the Spirit with the Lord “But He that is
joined unto the Lord is one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

In Marvel of Creation - All creation declares the Glory of
God and when we see it... we know HE is with us

In Acts of Mercy shown - Inasmuch as you have done it to the
LEAST of these MY BROTHERS, you did it to ME.

In Answered Prayer - When something we expect and pray for
manifests... it's Jesus.

In our entering in to HIM by Baptism to Sit in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6), buried with Him and "You have died and
your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3)

Jesus sometimes actually manifests to some believers bodily. He did to the Apostle Paul TWICE! It happens and has
happened all thru history. Yet if you need a physical manifestation to
comprehend his presence among you, you are of little faith. Blessed is he who has not seen and yet still believes.

If you would please God, you must first believe that He is, and the rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him.

Still true. Stop looking to some future date when He will appear and begin to
see Him all around you here and now. Your Joy will INCREASE. It will be
sad to get to heaven and hear, I was always there with you... think the
footprints in the sand poem... there is more truth there than you know.

One Post Script. I know what the Creeds say. I know what the Bible says about I
am coming soon. I believe He did. I am not sure we can use creeds alone as our
foundation for grasping the reality of Jesus among us here and now.

It’s sounds great when preachers talk about the return of Christ … someday.
Concentration on that future event robs people of present truth. Jesus said, “I
am the Truth”

Teaching the End Times has Dangers

I have been concerned about some of the radical views held by those
captured by certain end times teachings. I was there once. Held
them dear. Then when discovering the truth.. and coming to a grasp of what it
all really means... I began to see how much damage bad teaching in this area does
and even did to me. It was an emotional wrenching into reality.

It's not that people that teach these things are bad people, they are
sincere. They think they are warning the flock. What they are
really doing is blinding them. There is wide panoply of end times views.
They can't all be right.

I am most concerned with those who use the Rapture Ready theologies. They
are simply in gross error and the negative view they offer is very
damaging. Here is an article I lifted. I didn't write it, but I
agree with it:

“The Bad Fruit of Bad Eschatology”

Love usually takes the back seat while fear is emphasized. Sometimes the fear
is covered over by a rapture escape or Divine protection from coming wrath.

All long-term thinking becomes limited. It becomes impossible to even prophesy
beyond a few decades because of the supposed any minute return of Christ.

It creates a fear of technology because that new GPS, computer, smartphone,
laptop, etc; might be used as the “mark of the beast.”

It harbors a fear of politics because the antichrist could be right around the
corner.

It breeds an anti-Culture view to the point of irrelevancy. Yet, even the
Apostle Paul was able to quote from the popular culture of his own day. (Acts
17:28)

It demotivates from pushing forward in health, medicine, the environment, or
technology because why would one work for the good of a world that is going to
burn?

It has created a bizarre form of Christian racism. Many have
become Pro Israel to the point that no political thought is exercised. For
example if Israel were to mistreat her surrounding nations many modern
Christians would give them a free-pass because they are God’s chosen people.
Christians have literally accepted a new form of Pro-Israel/anti-Arab racism.

Also there is a suspicion toward other countries that has become anti-Russian
and anti-Chinese. This Christian racism is rooted in a wrong understanding of
the end-times.Hope is narrowed down to
a rapture based escape.The negative
end-time view is the seedbed of most cults and militias.

Many have turned to massive hours of fasting, prayer, quick evangelism and
looking for a rapture rather than studying and training for a lifetime of
advancing the kingdom.

The negative view doesn’t take the time texts of scripture seriously or literally.

Many silly conspiracies come from believing the negative view. This view fits
perfectly with those who believe in the Illuminati, the NWO, and other secret
society theories.

The fruit of these theologies have taken Christians who SHOULD be building the
Kingdom of God on Earth into a bunker mentality that serves neither God nor
man. Our mandate to be salt and light is lost by this diversion.

We need to be careful

Who will end up in HELL? Or the Lake of FIRE?

First the good news.

Every Christian, follower of Christ, one who is obedient will at some point
find life in time ending. For some it happens in old age at the end of a
struggle with disease. For some a sudden end of life as the result of
accident, war or violence.

For every person alive today, there will come a day when your last breath is
taken, your spirit leaves your body. Your body becomes an empty shell.

For the Christian when that moment comes, there is a glorious
transformation. Time ends and suddenly the believer finds him or herself
alive and awake in the presence of the Lord. What happens is in reality a
leaving of the dimension known as time and entering a new dimension we call
eternity.

Eternity has always been with us hidden in our hearts. Jesus lives
there. He's always with us. He never leaves nor forsakes us.
He doesn't because he lives right here. As close as the air that
surrounds us. When an angel appears, as happens often, they leave
eternity to enter time to intervene as part of the angel armies. Elisha’s
servant saw them.

Jesus can appear... as He enters time occasionally to manifest himself as He
did often in the old Testament, after his resurrection and even in our
day. He steps from eternity into time.

When the believer enters eternity (Heaven), he cannot see back into time nor
can he come back from eternity into time. We are aware of only those in
heaven. We will know each other as we are known, but we won't know of
those who "Didn't make it". That would cause grief. All
tears are washed away in heaven therefore knowledge of one who isn't there
isn't possible.

Once we are in eternity, in the presence of the Lord, our joy is made full.
Unspeakable. Full of glory. Without anything but living in the
fullness of the presence of the throne. The Sea of Glass.

Heaven is instantaneous and wonderful. Paul the Apostle talked of
it. I won't address time at all... because the idea of soul sleep is
involved in time. Understanding eternity is hard for people who live in
time. Just be certain that it is.... and you will enter it... and as a
Christian it will be GLORIOUS.

Now what of the unbeliever? What of that place we call hell?
What is damnation? What happens when an unbeliever dies?

When that day comes... they go to the grave. They are living the result
of their choice. They are without God.. dead. Gone.
Perished. Separated forever from the Glory of God in his presence.

What of the Rich Man in Jesus
story and a poor man named Lazarus. There’s a clue there, torment is
real. In eternity there is no time... but in the grave time is in
force. There comes a day... to a person who died a thousand
years ago or yesterday when they are brought from the grave (in the spirit) to
stand before a Holy and Just God in Judgment. God does not want ANYONE to
perish. Jesus stands as our fully paid righteousness. If there is
accusation He will say, "I shed blood for that one and he/she entered into
it". Salvation is confirmed although it was always in force.

It will be many fewer than you think. Those who willfully rejected the
wooing of the Holy Spirit (the unpardonable sin), will be condemned to the
second death. No eternal life.

This then becomes a difficult thing to define critically. Lots of scriptural
"Interpretation" as to what it is. The lake of FIRE is reserved
for the antichrist and the beast. It seems to be a particularly horrid place.There are others who will join them.The list is in the Word. It’s at this point
where things are cloudy. We only know that without His saving blood we are
eternally separated from the Father. He IS the only way. Yet.. the
lake of fire seems to be a temporary place for the lost soul.I can’t prove what I just said.I have a sense that Eternal DEATH and Separation
is tormenting enough.I do not have a specific
revelation of Hell.I don’t actually
want on.

Here is an important issue. Jesus spoke of levels of punishment.

Luke 12:

42The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the
master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the
proper time? 43It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so
when he returns. 44Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his
possessions. 45But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a
long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men
and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. 46The master of that servant
will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware
of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

47“The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not
do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48But the one who does
not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.
From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one
who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

I can't prove it, but here's what I know for sure.
Those who never come to Christ, many will simply die... absent of eternal
life. In the grave. Those who were intentionally
rebellious.... will suffer a greater torment. Reading the passage above seems
to indicate such.

Hell is real. It is reserved for the devil, his demons and those who are
part of HIS kingdom. For those who are simply ignorant of Jesus and his
redemption. Will die. Alone. In the grave. Bereft of eternal
life.

At this point I would expect to heart the knee-jerk reaction but what about the
poor lost soul in boogla boogla Africa, on an unexplored island or those who
are raised and die in Hindu or Islamic homes. Or what about those who died in
Canaan at the hands of those coming into the promised land?

Here’s what I know for sure. Holy Spirit woos. He appeals. He provides
opportunity. IF they never hear that appeal… they die lost to eternity and
spend eternity in the grave.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

8 Types of Drugs That Can Cause Leg Cramps-- Pain may be a sign of an underlying medical problem

by Dr. Armon B. Neel Jr., Reviewed September 2015|

The older you are, the more likely you are to
get nighttime leg cramps — sudden jolts of pain that can last from just a few
seconds to 15 or more minutes. Some studies, in fact, suggest that more than
two-thirds of older people have experienced these painful cramps.

Are you having painful leg cramps? You may want to change
your prescription meds.

Nighttime leg cramps typically affect the calf muscles, but
you can also get them in the feet or thighs. They may be caused by sitting — or
standing on hard surfaces — for too long; wearing uncomfortable shoes or shoes
with elevated heels; dehydration (which can deplete electrolytes that are key
to proper muscle function); some medical conditions, such as diabetes or edema;
and, finally, certain medications.

Here are the eight types of drugs that most frequently cause
nighttime leg cramps. If you're taking any of them and experiencing cramps, you
should consult with your doctor or other health care professional about the
possibility of adjusting the dosage or changing to another type of medication
or treatment.

And even if you aren't taking one of these drugs, it's still
wise to consult with your doctor if you often cramp up at night. In most cases,
leg cramps are harmless. But they can signal an underlying medical problem,
especially if you also have muscle weakness, swelling, or numbness or pain that
just won't go away.

1. Short-acting loop diuretics

Why they're prescribed: Diuretics (also called water pills)
are used to treat high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and edema,
among other conditions. Diuretics help the body get rid of excess fluid by
moving it into the urine.

Short-acting loop diuretics, so named because they are
rapidly eliminated from the body, include bumetanide (Bumex) and furosemide
(Lasix, Puresis).

How they can cause leg cramps: Diuretics increase the body's
excretion of some electrolytes — including sodium, chloride and potassium —
through the urine. Low levels of these can cause extreme fatigue and muscle
weakness, as well as achy joints, bones and muscles.

Alternatives: A low dose of a long-acting loop diuretic,
such as torsemide (Demadex), can reduce the risk of electrolyte loss. It may
also be helpful to cut back on dietary salt, exercise more and control your
fluid intake. Be careful with salt substitutes, however, as most contain
potassium chloride and can also cause electrolyte imbalances. And be sure to
consult a health care professional before beginning a new exercise regimen.

2. Thiazide diuretics

Why they're prescribed: Thiazide diuretics are most commonly
used to treat high blood pressure, although they are also used to treat
congestive heart failure, edema and other conditions.

Alternatives: Talk with your health care provider about the
advisability of switching to a low dose of a long-acting loop diuretic, such as
torsemide (Demadex), which can significantly reduce the risk of electrolyte
loss, or to another hypertension medication. It may also be helpful to cut back
on dietary salt, exercise more and control your fluid intake. Be careful with
salt substitutes, however; most contain potassium chloride and can also cause
electrolyte imbalances. And consult a health care professional before beginning
a new exercise regimen.

3. Beta-blockers

Why they're prescribed: Beta-blockers are typically
prescribed to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and arrhythmias
(abnormal heart rhythms). These drugs slow the heart rate and lower blood
pressure by blocking the effect of the hormone adrenaline. Beta-blockers are
also used to treat angina, migraines, tremors and, in eyedrop form, certain
kinds of glaucoma.

How they can cause leg cramps: Researchers have known for
more than 20 years that beta-blockers can induce leg cramps, but they haven't
yet determined why. Studies have shown that beta-blockers cause the arteries in
the legs and arms to narrow, which in turn causes less blood to flow through
the limbs. That's why some people who take beta-blockers have cold hands and
feet, a condition known as peripheral vasoconstriction. (Should you experience
this side effect, it's important to let your physician know as soon as
possible.) Because there's often a delay between starting on a beta-blocker and
the appearance of leg cramps — anywhere from a few months to more than two
years) — patients typically don't suspect a connection between the two.

Alternatives: For older people, benzothiazepine calcium
channel blockers, another type of blood pressure medication, are often safer
and more effective than beta-blockers.

4. Statins and fibrates

Why they're prescribed: Statins and fibrates are used to
treat high cholesterol. The top-selling statins are atorvastatin (Lipitor),
rosuvastatin (Crestor) and simvastatin (Zocor); the top-selling fibrate is
fenofibrate (Tricor).

How they can cause leg cramps: Studies show that statins can
inhibit the production of satellite cells in the muscle, interfering with
muscle growth. Some researchers have also suggested that statins work, at the
cellular level, to sap energy. Muscle weakness and aches throughout the body
can be symptoms of statin-induced rhabdomyolysis, a breakdown of skeletal
muscle that causes muscle fibers to be released into the bloodstream, sometimes
harming the kidneys. Additionally, older adults who take these drugs are at
greater risk of developing sarcopenia, or the wasting away of skeletal muscle
and strength that's associated with aging.

Alternatives: If you're among the many millions of older
Americans who don't have known heart disease but are taking these drugs to
lower their slightly elevated cholesterol, ask your doctor or other health care
provider about trying to lower your cholesterol by changing your diet. You also
might try lowering your blood levels of homocysteine — which is linked to high
cholesterol — by taking a combination of sublingual (under-the-tongue) vitamin
B12 (1,000 mcg daily), folic acid (800 mcg daily) and vitamin B6 (200 mg
daily).

Beta2-agonists are typically given through an inhaler, which
delivers a measured dose of the drug as a fine mist. They're also sometimes
given in pill or injectable form to patients who can't use inhalers.

Alternatives: If you're using a beta2-agonist for a
condition other than pulmonary disease, talk with your doctor or other health
care provider about possibly switching medications or types of treatment.
Systematic reviews of studies have found that beta2-agonists do not provide
significant relief to non-COPD patients with acute bronchitis or cough.

If you do have pulmonary disease, I'd suggest talking with
your physician about switching to tiotropium bromide (Spiriva), a different
type of long-acting bronchodilator, used once a day. Spireva has been shown to
outperform beta2-agonists at improving the overall health status of people with
COPD.

6. ACE inhibitors

Why they're prescribed: Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)
inhibitors are used to treat high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and
other conditions. These drugs help relax blood vessels by preventing the body
from producing angiotensin II, a hormone that causes blood vessels to narrow
and, in turn, blood pressure to rise.

How they can cause leg cramps: ACE inhibitors can cause
potassium to build up in the body (another type of electrolyte imbalance),
which can lead to leg cramps and achy joints, bones and muscles.

Alternatives: If you're taking an ACE inhibitor for a
cardiovascular problem, talk with your doctor about possibly switching to a
benzothiazepine calcium channel blocker, another form of blood-pressure
medication that is often better tolerated by older adults. This is especially
important for African Americans and Asian Americans, who because of differences
in their renin-angiotensin systems, have much higher incidences of adverse
effects.

If your condition is accompanied by fluid retention, your
doctor may consider adding a low dose of a long-acting loop diuretic such as
torsemide.

7. Angiotensin II-receptor blockers (ARBs)

Why they're prescribed: ARBs are often used to treat
coronary artery disease or heart failure in patients who can't tolerate ACE
inhibitors or who have type 2 diabetes or kidney disease from diabetes. Instead
of blocking the body's production of angiotensin II, ARBs prevent it from
exerting its blood vessel-constricting effects.

How they can cause leg cramps: Like ACE inhibitors, ARBs
frequently lead to potassium overload in the body, which can cause leg cramps
and achy joints, bones and muscles.

Alternatives: As with ACE inhibitors, I'd recommend you
consult with your health care provider about the advisability of switching to a
benzothiazepine calcium channel blocker, which is often better tolerated by
older adults. This is especially important for African Americans and Asian
Americans, who because of differences in their renin-angiotensin systems, have
much higher incidences of adverse effects.

A low dose of a long-acting loop diuretic such as torsemide
may also be desirable.

8. Antipsychotics

Why they're prescribed: Antipsychotics are used to treat
schizophrenia,bipolar disorder and other serious psychiatric conditions.
Antipsychotic drugs also are often prescribed "off label" to treat
agitation and depression, among other conditions.

How they can cause leg cramps: Antipsychotics are powerful
central nervous system depressants. In studies, their side effects include
fatigue, lethargy and weakness. All of these drugs also lower dopamine levels,
which can cause drowsiness and sleepiness, and lead to muscle stiffness and
muscle cramping. Serious dopamine deficits caused by the continued use of
antipsychotics can cause muscle rigidity and often-irreversible movement
disorders such as akathisia (an urge to keep moving around) and tardive
dyskinesia (a syndrome characterized by involuntary, repetitive body
movements).

Alternatives: Talk with your doctor or other health care
provider about the advisability of reducing the dosage or switching to another
medication, especially if you have been prescribed an antipsychotic drug for
problems with sleeping, anxiety or depression.

"Ask the Pharmacist" is written by Armon B. Neel
Jr., PharmD, CGP, in collaboration with journalist Bill Hogan. They are
coauthors of Are Your Prescriptions Killing You? (Atria Books).

Saturday, January 07, 2017

Facing the End - Entering Eternity without Fear - Ready for Heaven

Imagine that you are one and then the other of the two thieves on the cross on
either side of Jesus as they died. One mocked him. Bravado.
Anger. Pain. The other appealed to Jesus. “Remember me” he
said. Jesus assures him thru his anguish, pain of scourging and beatings,
pain of torture on a cross designed to make the dying as long and painful as
possible. All three were suffering.

The mocking thief faced his
final moments in terror. Not knowing what would be next. His last
breath was a desperate attempt to forestall the moment of life's
termination.

On the other side was the
thief that heard the word of the Lord; “TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN
PARADISE”. His last breath was welcomed. He knew that Jesus, the
Creator of the universe, opened heaven's welcome center for him. Fear was
gone. He may have been in pain.. But he entered into eternity with
hope. That is Gods best for his children. Fear of the sting of
death is gone...as we will lay dying He says once more ... “TODAY YOU WILL BE
WITH ME”.

So what happens to us right after we die? Suddenly it's the moment after. Time has
now ceased. We enter eternity. All pain is gone. Our carcass is
empty. Body and soul are no longer one. What do we see or experience?
What is that moment like?What we will see, hear and feel in Heaven

There are scriptural
evidences and testimonies of a some who have witnessed these things to help us
grasp what happens. We can construct what it will be like using clues
with Biblical support.

The song we can only imagine,
as wonderful as it is, comes short of the mark. We can and if we can grasp the
vision, fear dissolves.

The moment the thief Jesus Promised died, all people who die in Christ, the
moment you die here's what happens next:

There is a shock into well being. We suddenly feel indescribable
peace. Beyond all understanding. It's overwhelms us. We can
hardly take it in. Then there is the unimaginable beauty. It is a
manifestation of the fullness of Jesus beauty. Every color comes so alive that
we can taste it. In fact we will taste colors. Music is
everywhere. All at once. Remember this is eternity where everything
is now. So our experience in non linear. It's all now. Hard
for those of us trapped in time to grasp, but to get a small glimpse of what
that might be like, think back to a wonderful childhood memory. A good
one. Think of it. All the color, music, joy, fun, and love you
felt. Now let that emotion come over you. You see it not in linear
fashion but as one good memory, all at once. The parts you really enjoyed
come back again and again. That's a bad imitation of what eternity is
like. All at once, but able to be parceled out.

I hear people ask what kind
of music will I hear? It will be your fullness of joy to experience...
whatever fits your moment will be heard. For some hymns, for some chants, for
some choruses, for some classical, for some a gospel song, or even a joyful
rap. It's your eternity and Father will speak to you in the context you understand.
You will grasp that it's all one. Yet differentiated, yet we will not
know of the differences others experience.

You will have unspeakable joy. No remembrances from earth that have
contain any regret or pain... the pain you had in life will fit into your
understanding and there will be no questions. The Idea that you are going
to ask questions of Jesus when you get there will be needless. You will
have full understanding of all. You will know who you really are.
There will be no more self doubt. How you fit into the whole while on
earth will make perfect sense in a supernatural way. That is why there is
no recognized hierarchy in heaven. One saint is as another.
Fullness and fitly joined together. This sudden recognition of your place
in the universe will take your breath away.

Your capacity for experience will multiply a thousand times or more. You
will experience heaven as if you had 5000 senses instead of 5. Every
color, every sound, every taste, everything you hear, everything you feel, and
the fragrance... it will be amazing. You will understand what a vapid
colorless place life on earth was. You won't regret it...but wish
everyone could experience what you are experience.

You will live without confusion. No question. Your desire will be to
worship. It will all be so clear. Bowing in worship, raising
hands. Singing. The Sea of Glass is a desire hidden in the hearts
of men. We want to be there. Whatever we do will make all the sense...in
heaven. It will be automatic. You
will want to enter into who HE is so completely as to be lost in Him. You
were created for this. The beauty of Jesus will be revealed again and
again. It will be all one but eternal. It will never be boring. Love will be overwhelming.

You will have a form. A spirit form. Yet you will look to others as
you were remembered best. Known as you were known. Recognized... yet it
is your spirit that they see.. the rest is construct. In fact you have
only a spirit. It's hard to explain, but you won't have arms, legs or a
head as you know yourself, but to those who see you, you will look as you did
to them. I know that's hard to understand but think of a child who dies
young. Her daddy is 25 years old. She will see him thus. His
brother who dies at 50 will remember him as about his age and his wife who
follows him in death will see that man thru the eyes of love. His mother who
bore him and died in childbirth will see him as a young boy. They will
all know him, but all in context and construct. Its how people who die
see grandparents and such waiting for them... as they knew them.

It will not seem an unfamiliar place to be explored. You will already
know all about it. It will seem normal, someplace you already knew.
In a strange way, heaven was always in your heart.

You have had glimpses of
it. This is why the idea of reincarnation keeps coming up in false
religions. There is a sense of going back, so people try to explain the
origin of all life (JESUS saying let there be) as a reincarnation. It's not.
But it is a type of returning... Remember, once there, all here is now.
To grasp this scripturally, you are already seated in heavenly places with
Christ Jesus...yet you are here. In that
way you return to heaven, you are HOME.

It is impossible to describe so those who have had a glimpse of Heaven are lost
for words.

One thing is certain, once
you have been there and come back the fear of death, even the fear of the pain
of death is gone.

People don't GO to heaven. They enter heaven. Heaven is infinite in
proximity. Right here. Right there. Just there. It is easier
to think of it a long long away somehow out there, but it's here. Not on earth,
well kind of. More on that in the last post.

When people die they step from the cloak of time into the uncloaking of
eternity. We are locked in a box called time and enter into an unlimited
vista called NOW.. Eternity.

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I have been married for a long time and with two wonderful Sons have enjoyed life here and overseas. I look forward to a full productive life of making things better and better for more and more people. I have been given much and for that reason much is required. I'm ready.